Essay: There Must Be a Nicer Way

The question comes from the Rev. Donald Wildmon, head of the National
Federation for Decency: "Where is the TV show about a modern home with
decent people?" The glib answer is: Nowhere. Ordinarily, a crusade to
purify the tales shown on the tube would deserve only that short
shrift. But Wildmon's question begs for a more thoughtful response, if
only because TV's gory and jiggly tales are not the only ones that are
conspicuously short on niceness. The same can be said of most all the
world's fiction, narrative or dramatic, trash or quality....